Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Wedding Wednesday: Dancing Fiends

Everything at our wedding was crazy fun, because so many people were so pumped to be there. I can't believe how many people filled the dance floor, stayed for the night and met us for barhopping afterward. It was amazing!!

Iman and I did not take dance lessons or rehearse for our first dance - although technically he danced me out onto the floor in our entrance. Most of the dance I look like this - looking up at him because of our huge size gap. I'm pretty much used to always looking up anyway.

Iman really likes to spin me around, though so I didn't spend the whole time looking up.

After our first dance, we moved into the Money Dance. If you're not familiar with this dance, it is a way for a bride and groom to make money for their honeymoon. Iman thought it was going to be the weirdest thing on the planet, but my Mexican family definitely insisted on the tradition.

We made a lot of money doing this! It was pretty awesome, and so fun to get to dance with everyone. I love that it gave us the chance to spend dance floor time with our family members. Here is Iman and his grandma (as you can tell, he gets his height from her!)

My little bother (aka brother) came and danced with with me. Super sweet man! I kept talking while we danced because I can't keep my mouth shut.

Throwing the bouquet was super fun! I love everyone's faces in the back! For the record the tattooed girl on the right caught it :)

Iman's crowd wasn't as excited to catch the garter. Probably because they're boys. I'm pretty sure his little brothers caught it, which is awkward but they are over 6ft tall soo it makes sense.

I think the rest of these picture are hilarious. They totally show how animated Iman and I are as people. We're somehow both the life of the party. Usually, we switch off and one of us is quieter, but when we're surrounded with all of our family and friends, we just can't help ourselves.

I can't tell you how many pictures have us making hilarious faces because we are so animated.

Iman in the middle of a dance circle, of course.

Just doing the cupid shuffle. Our ring bearer did not like that song apparently...

Somehow in the midst of all of our dancing, someone took the ribbon off of the chairs and put it on their head. It quickly spread throughout the whole wedding party and security ended up collecting them as people left for the night. Freaking hilarious! The kids and adults were wearing them.

Next week I'm sharing our wedding party pictures, and then September means DIY tips!!

78 comments:

Wow I love these photos! Your wedding looks like it was a ton of fun. I completely forgot about the money dance! I think with Pinterest that has kind of fizzled out, but I'm glad you brought it back! I once paid to dance with my aunt because her husband at the time was a weirdo. I thought it was so much fun though !

WW are my favorite on your blog now!! :) We ended up choreographing a dance, but ultimately the photos don't usually end up as good unless you're doing the regular back and forth swaying. Or maybe it was just me. I was making some weird faces during our tango. You guys look so sweet together in your first dance photo!

hahaha, I love that you danced with your aunt because you thought her husband was a weirdo! That is totally something I would do! The money dance is super cool because I got to spend time with people I probably wouldn't have spent much time with. My grandpa talked more to me during the money dance than he had in the past few months (whenever I called he'd ask me what I wanted and thought it was weird if I called just to talk lol)

aww thank you Esther!! I just love looking at the pix =X OOH! You did a tango? That is so awesome!! Iman was totally against dance classes and love to dance and so I just followed whatever it is he wanted to do. hahaha. Definitely have the FUNNIEST pictures. I will have to post a "funny expression" WW

hahaha oh wow this looks like such a fun reception! The ribbons are hysterical! What great memories to have!

Also, I don't think I noticed the lace straps for your dress before (I was so distracted by your pretty face!). Anyway, I loooove them! They are so pretty and unique! Did the dress come with them or did you add them? Either way, love them!! :)

haha, it was definitely amazing and hilarious!!! I loved when Iman's aunts and uncles put them on!!

My mom made my dress, so I guess you can say the straps came with it!! The dresses I had looked all hada one element that I loved and I couldn't find it altogether in one, so she put them all together! We actually found the strap lace before we found the regular lace for the top (the same day at the store, but we had a few moments of discourage!)

For me, eloping was ideal. When I started planning my wedding, things got out of control quickly. Everyone had expectations about what it 'had' to be (although none of them were interested in paying for it, lol!). There was a lot more to it than that, but for the sake of brevity I'll just say that ultimately we solved the fight over who would and wouldn't be able to attend by allowing nobody to attend--fair treatment across the board! We flew to Vegas and got married there.